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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Where Did I Go Wrong?

I've raised my children the good old fashioned American way. On processed foods and chemically preserved food-stuff. That they eat in front of the TV. Which is babysitting them.

(insert heavy sarcasm font above)

I offered my children a popular brand of canned spaghetti where the noodles are produced in cute little circles with a discolored glue probably intended to be the sauce. Where the can label lists things like toxicobenzene, red sludge, rubberizedwhiteifiedflour, and 435 separate preservatives. The sort of thing that is quite possibly keeping Joan Rivers' face from falling off. The sort of thing I loved as a kid. That all kids should love. They have commercials! They have an adorable character! They have cute noodles!

They declined. Declined!!!

Why? They wanted me to make MY spaghetti. With MY sauce that I make from tomatoes and spices with straight noodles and stuff. Bah. They wanted me to cook. Cook!!! Food!!!

I think they have changed the little round noodles since we were kids because I recently made some for my Girlie. I was excited about this tasty lunch because I remembered how much I loved the canned goodness, so I tasted it before serving it. I threw it out and made pb and j. So. Very. Sad.

LOL, it must have been a right of passage in the 80's to eat canned spaghetti-type-meals. I never did like them. My sister loved them. My husband LOVES them. So once when I went to a conference and he had the kiddos for the day, he had it all planned out that they'd have this wonderful lunch of spaghetticrap. HA. The kids didn't lke it.at.all. LOL

OH!! those things are foul!! And what about the "meat" ravioli? What is going on there? My kids are the same way, they turn their refined little noses up at canned vegetables, canned pasta, and those heinous lunch in a plastic tray things.

Hey, maybe they changed the recipe! Because they really seem a little more nasty than I remember. But still- if I am going to start to have to cook with the stove and stuff, this deal is off. Off!

My kids actually like the plastic tray lunches because of the cookie. They only get them on rare occasions and claim to love them. I think they like to stack their own little sandwiches too. Of course if I bought crackers, cheese and lunchmeat they would cry. LOL!

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The girls and their Mommy

Once upon a time I lived a lovely little life. I did what I wanted. I spent what I wanted. My husband and I traveled when we wanted and ate at restaurants when we wanted. One day after eating out while traveling and spending too much on dinner and drinks, we became pregnant and it was a girl (Teena). 2 years later I thought I had this mom thing under control and we adopted a 4 year old little girl (Genea). She is Ukrainian and was previously adopted by another family who dissolved ("disrupted") their adoption and severed their parental rights.The girls are 10 and 12 now. I left my job a few years ago to be a SAHM.Things have gone uphill from there!